Ms. Josephine Waruguru Macharia-Kanyi.
MA(Econ), UoN,BA.Econ(UoN)
(Alternate to the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury.).

Ms. Josephine Waruguru Kanyi is a Senior Deputy Director in the National Treasury Budget Fiscal and Economic Affairs in the Department of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations.

She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Nairobi.

She has served in the Ministry of Planning and National Development from 1991 to 1994, the Ministry of Research and Technology (1994–1998), and the Ministry of Finance (1998)–2010 as head of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Business Regulation Reform Units. She served as Chief Economist in the National Treasury from 2010–2016.

She has attended courses on fiscal decentralization, financial management, tax policy analysis, and revenue forecasting at Harvard University, USA, and macroeconomic diagnostics at the IMF Institute in the USA.

She also serves on the on the Business Registration Service Board and the National Government-Constituency Development Board (NG-CDF) and has previously served on the KIPPRA board, the Kenya Vehicles Manufacturers Board, and the LATIF advisory board.